Fibre nonlinearity in dispersion-compensated conventional fibre transmission

Author

Kikuchi, N. ; Sasaki, S.

Author_Institution

Central Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Kokubunji, Japan

Volume

32

Issue

6

fYear

1996

fDate

3/14/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

570

Lastpage

572

Abstract

The authors investigate the fibre non-linear effect, self-phase modulation (SPM) and modulation instability (MI), in long distance (>1000 km) dispersion-compensated (DC) conventional optical fibre transmission using numerical simulation and experiments. They compare the results with those in the dispersion-shifted fibre (DSF) transmissions and clarify the remarkable characteristics of DC transmissions, i.e. the characteristic behaviour of the waveform deformation and the absence of the MI. The optimum amount of the dispersion compensation is also discussed, and it is shown that the dispersion window for a transmission thousands of kilometres long is obtained in the average positive dispersion region, and the negative transmitter a-parameter is advantageous

Keywords

compensation; modulational instability; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; phase modulation; stability; 1000 km; average positive dispersion region; dispersion window; dispersion-compensated conventional fibre transmission; experiment; fibre nonlinear effect; fibre nonlinearity; long distance dispersion-compensated conventional optical fibre transmission; modulation instability; negative transmitter a-parameter; numerical simulation; self-phase modulation; waveform deformation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:19960398

Filename

490480